Lopes: Gaza is the cemetery of international law

If authoritarian regimes do not care about the humanitarianism and universalism that form the basis of international law, then Western democracies also contribute to discrediting it.

From US President Joe Biden to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, through French President Emmanuel Macron, double standards emerge from the inconsistency of Western discourse, especially with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a duality that contributes to undermining the credibility of these countries’ moral position and weakening their international weight.

With this introduction, Lopes magazine summarized an article by public law professor Baligh Nabli in which he said that in the absence of a “world government” there is international law that gives substance to a form of global consciousness, and there are principles and rules that must be respected even in times of war, and the clear violation of these primary considerations places responsibility on The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel and political and military individuals are perpetrators of international crimes. The author presents Hamas’ attack on Israel as a series of acts that may constitute war crimes.

But he also believes that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has surrendered to a spirit of revenge that deviates from the basic rules of international humanitarian law, which means that the Israeli military response exceeded the specific framework of the right to “self-defense,” and even exceeded all limits by committing a comprehensive siege that deprives civilians of Services and goods essential for survival, the massive, disproportionate and indiscriminate bombing, the destruction of civilian and health buildings, the “forced transfer” of approximately 1.5 million civilians and the targeting and killing of dozens of journalists, all of these cases constitute international war crimes.

If we accept the condemnation of the Hamas attack - the writer says - then we must also realize that the unconditional support for Israel and the absence of condemnation of the war crimes it commits contradict the Western adherence to respect for international law and the universality of human rights, and this is the basis of the position of the United States and the Europeans in their categorical condemnation of Russian crimes against Ukraine. And its inhabitants, but double standards are applied to countries and people by exempting Westerners from international law as if “human lives are not equal,” as he put it.

Source: Aljazeera.net